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¹Zvino ini, hama dzangu, pakuvuya kwangu kwamuri, handina kuvuya ndichikuparidzirai vuchapupu bwaMwari nokunaka kwamashoko, kana kwovuchenjeri.And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

²Nokuti ndakati, handingazivi chinhu pakati penyu, asi Jesu Kristu, iye wakaroverwa pamuchinjikwa.For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

³Ndakanga ndiri pakati penyu novutera, nokutya, nokudedera kukuru,And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴neshoko rangu nokuparidza kwangu hazvizaiva namashoko okugombedzera ovuchenjeri; hwavanhu asi nokuratidza kwoMweya nokwesimba;And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

⁵kuti kutenda kwenyu kurege kuva muvuchenjeri bwavanhu, asi musimba raMwari.That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶Zvino tinotaura vuchenjeri pakati pavakakwana; asi vuchenjeri bwusati bwuri bwenyika ino, kana bwavabati venyika ino vanoshaiswa simba.Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

⁷Asi tinotaura vuchenjeri bwaMwari bwakavanzika, bwakafukidzwa, bwakatemerwa kubwinya kwedu naMwari, nyika isati yavapo;But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

⁸bwusina kuzivikanwa nomumwe wavabati venyika ino; nokuti dai vaibwuziva, vangadai vaisarovera Ishe wokubwinya pamuchinjikwa.Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹Asi sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Izvo zvisina kuvonekwa neziso, kana kunzwika nenzeve, Nezvisina kupinda mumoyo womunhu, Ndizvo Mwari zvaakagadzirira vanomuda.But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

¹⁰Nokuti Mwari wakazviratidza izvo kwatiri isu noMweya; nokuti Mweya unonzvera zvose, nezvakadzika zvaMwari.But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

¹¹Nokuti munhu ndoupiko unoziva zvomunhu, asi mweya womunhu, uri maari? Saizvozvo hakunomunhu unoziva zvaMwari, asi Mweya waMwari.For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

¹²Zvino isu hatina kugamuchira mweya wenyika, asi Mweya unobva kunaMwari; kuti tizive izvo zvatakangopiwa hedu naMwari.Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

¹³Ndizvo zvatinotauravo, tisingatauri namashoko atinodzidziswa novuchenjeri bwomunhu, asi anodzidziswa noMweya mutsvene; tichidudzira zvinhu zvoMweya kuvanhu voMweya.Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

¹⁴Zvino munhu sezvaakaberekwa haagamuchiri zvinhu zvoMweya waMwari; nokuti vupenzi kwaari; haazvinzwisisi, nokuti zvinonzwisiswa noMweya.But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵Asi uri woMweya unonzwisisa zvose, asi iye amene haanzwisiswi nomunhu.But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

¹⁶Nokuti ndianiko wakaziva murangariro waShe, kuti amudzidzise? Asi isu tinomurangariro waKristu.For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.